Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:45 AM EST
The Dutch Cabinet moved a step closer Friday to banning the burqa, making good on an election promise that is largely symbolic but has broad public support.
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Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:16 PM EST
Ratko Mladic's lawyer said Thursday the former Bosnian Serb military commander will not be ready to go to trial until October, months after the date in March judges penciled in to start the genocide case at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.
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Tue Jan 10, 2012 9:34 AM EST
The International Criminal Court granted Libyan authorities more time Tuesday to answer its questions about Moammar Gadhafi's son and one-time heir apparent, who is wanted by the court but is being held by Libyan fighters.
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Wed Nov 30, 2011 5:30 AM EST
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was taken into custody by the International Criminal Court Wednesday to face charges of murder, rape and other crimes allegedly committed by his supporters as he clung to power after last year's elections.
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Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:59 AM EST
The International Criminal Court charged former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo with murder, rape, persecution and inhuman acts Wednesday, crimes allegedly committed as his backers fought brutal battles to keep him in power last year.
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Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:34 PM EST
Monique van der Vorst has completed a remarkable transformation — from Paralympic athlete to road racing cyclist with a top professional team.
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Fri Nov 11, 2011 5:27 AM EST
Prosecutors at a U.N.-backed court set up to prosecute the killers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri told judges Friday it is too early to stage a trial in absentia for four Hezbollah members indicted in the assassination.
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Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:17 AM EDT
A Dutch court convicted five ethnic Tamils on Friday for raising illegal funds for the Sri Lankan rebel group Tamil Tigers, but in a ruling that ran counter to European and U.S. policy it refused to brand the Tigers a terrorist organization.
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Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:01 AM EDT
When Tamil Tigers were routed on the battlefield two years ago, the Sri Lankan government believed it had crushed the 25-year rebellion for a separate Tamil homeland.
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Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:23 AM EDT
Samsung asked Dutch judges Monday to slap an injunction on Apple Inc. to prevent it from selling iPhones and iPad tablets in the Netherlands, saying Apple does not have licenses to use 3G mobile technology in the devices.
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Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:17 AM EDT
Defense lawyers said Wednesday that prosecution witnesses who could testify at the International Criminal Court fabricated evidence against three prominent Kenyans accused of organizing deadly violence after Kenya's disputed 2007 presidential election.
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Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:20 AM EDT
Five Sri Lankans accused of supporting the Tamil Tiger rebels in their country's 26-year civil war went on trial in a Dutch court Thursday, in a case that hinges on whether judges rule that the Tigers were legitimate freedom fighters or terrorists.
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Mon Sep 5, 2011 1:27 PM EDT
Judges refused on Monday to dismiss a terrorist case against a Nigerian activist charged with conspiring to attack oil pipelines in his homeland as well as people smuggling and fraud.
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Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:27 AM EDT
As Libyan rebels claim to be closing in on Moammar Gadhafi, human rights activists are urging them to turn the Libyan dictator over to the International Criminal Court for trial and not mete out justice themselves.
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Wed Aug 24, 2011 10:19 AM EDT
The wartime leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia pleaded not guilty Wednesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to charges of murdering hundreds of Croats and expelling tens of thousands more in one of the first ethnic cleansing campaigns of the Balkan conflicts.
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Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:22 PM EDT
The International Criminal Court has received reports of atrocities in Syria but has no jurisdiction "at this stage" to open an investigation because Damascus does not recognize the court, its prosecutor said Friday.
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Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:15 AM EDT
A Dutch Catholic institute for disabled girls said Thursday it will review 40 deaths at the children's home in the early 1950s. The review comes days after prosecutors began a criminal investigation into 34 deaths at a former Catholic boys' institute in the same town and the same time period.
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Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:27 AM EDT
A gunman who shot and killed six people in a shopping mall before committing suicide should not have been granted a permit for the three weapons he used, police and prosecutors said Monday.
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Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:35 AM EDT
The Dutch government rejected a Palestinian initiative Thursday to seek U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:39 AM EDT
The Dutch parliament has passed a bill banning the slaughter of livestock without stunning it first, removing an exemption that has allowed Jews and Muslims to butcher animals according to their centuries-old dietary rules.
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Wed Jun 8, 2011 6:24 AM EDT
Europe has a lot riding on NATO's mission in Libya, with the campaign widely seen as one spearheaded by European vision and the United States staying on the sidelines.
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Wed Jun 1, 2011 2:57 PM EDT
Once they were enemies, commanding armies locked in deadly struggles. But together behind bars as war crimes suspects, ethnic hatreds largely evaporate among the men whom Ratko Mladic has joined at a high security U.N. jail to await his trial on genocide charges.
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Wed Jun 1, 2011 1:10 AM EDT
Ratko Mladic was waking up in an isolation cell in The Hague Wednesday, less than a week after he was captured after 16 years on the run. The Bosnian Serb military commander now awaits trial on genocide charges over the killing of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the worst massacre of civilians in Europe since World War II.
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Mon May 30, 2011 1:30 AM EDT
Thailand and Cambodia traded barbs Monday at the United Nations' highest court, accusing each other of launching illegal cross-border attacks around a historic temple in a disputed border region.
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Thu May 26, 2011 1:18 PM EDT
In a message from his jail cell, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic regretted the arrest Thursday of his wartime ally Ratko Mladic, and said he wants to work with him "to bring out the truth" about the Bosnian war at their trials.
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